In exclusive statements to Alhurra, U.S. Central Command said the transfer of nearly 7,000 ISIS detainees from Syria to Iraq will take days rather than weeks, while an Iraqi government ...

The interaction ended before I fully understood what was happening. In Union Station, everything keeps moving—crowds, announcements, decisions—and there’s rarely space to stop and sort things out.

On a day that was sunny yet cold at the same time, crowds from the Kurdish community took to the streets of the Lebanese capital, Beirut, waving flags of the Kurdistan Region, holding banners and ...

A few days after sending a letter to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi regarding the dispute between Egypt and Ethiopia over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), U.S. President Donald ...

The U.S. State Department said in a statement to Alhurra that Washington is closely monitoring the process of forming the Iraqi government and is engaged in ongoing consultations with senior Iraqi ...

Welcome back to the MBN Iran Briefing. It’s the fourth week since protests began, quickly spread across Iran, and were brutally put down by the regime. Reliable sources are speaking of thousands ...

Dear Colleagues, The news out of Iran this week is horrific. The regime now acknowledges that at least 5,000 people were ...

It did not take long after Saudi Arabia and Pakistan signed a joint strategic defense agreement in September 2025 for Pakistan’s Minister of Defense Production, Raza Hayat Harraj, to announce that ...

Within just a few months, U.S. President Donald Trump has drawn a somewhat bewildering map of America’s role in the world. He has threatened to annex Greenland “by force, if necessary,” pushed ...

America projects soft power through popular culture (think Mickey Mouse, Taylor Swift) or its biggest brands (Nike or Stanford). As it plots its rise globally, and in the Middle East, China’s own ...

Welcome back to the MBN Agenda, our look at the events driving the news in the Middle East in the week to come. First up, a must-read on one of the region’s defining stories: A Shroud of Silence ...

The complication in Phase Two of the Gaza plan is not reconstruction or governance. It is disarmament, and the absence of any mechanism capable of delivering it. Washington now expects Hamas to ...